Improvement in wagon-tongues



E. P. CARTER.

Wagon Tongue. No. 101,429. Patented April 5. 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 101,429, dated April 5, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN wAG-ON-TONG-UES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part otthe same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, E. P. CARTER, of Arcade, in the county of Wyoming and in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-Tongues; and do hereby declare that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying plate of drawings hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

My invention relates to that class of tongues or drait-bars which may be adjusted to-suit the size of the vehicle to which they are applied, and its nature consists in certain modifications and improvements in the details of the construction of the same, hereinafter described and shown.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, which illustrate my invention and form a part of thespecification thereof, in which corresponding parts are indicated by similar letters- I Figure 1 represents a top view of my invention with the parts thereof extended, and

Figure 2 is a bottom view with the parts thereoi contracted.

The construction, operation, and relative arrangement of the component parts of my invention are as follows, to wit:

The pole A is attached to the single-tree B, and held firmly in position by the braces G.

The elongating bars D are attached to the said single-tree by means of the clevis-bolts 'b, in such a manner as to admit of their lateral adjustment.

To the outer ends of the said elongating bars are attached bolts, through the eyes of which pass the rods E.

The said rods E are provided with eye-bolts,c, fitting uponthe braces O, by means of which they may be slipped backward and forward.

By this arrangement of the parts constituting my invention, the draft-pole or bar maybe readily adapted to vehiclesof different widths. v

Having thus describedthe construction, operation, and relative arrangement of the component parts of my invention, 1 willindicate what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, in the following clause:

I claim the pole A, with its cross-bar B, provided with the sliding rod b, elongating bar D, fastening E, and brace G.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my handthis 22d day of-January, 1870.

Witnesses: E. P. CARTER.

O. A. Woonwonrn, B. F. HURTZ. 

